GOG.com Now Offering DRM-Free Movies

For the last six years, GOG.com has become popular due to its DRM(digital rights management)-free games policy, allowing players to purchase games without having to verify their validity through a service or connecting to the internet to play. Now, the online service has added film and television to their digital offerings, charging $6 USD to download or stream each title.

Currently, all of the films available are related to the internet and gaming communities, including several documentaries both new and old. As it moves forward with the sales, the service hopes to partner with Hollywood to make TV and cinema films available.

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Two films are now available for free to allow people to test out the service. The first, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, is a documentary about the co-founders of The Pirate Bay and the legal trouble they've dealt with. The second is an episode of the Arts in Context series titled The Art of Playing.

GOG.com has partnered with publisher Devolver Digital and has made several of their films available through this service, including The Art of Playing. Devolver's Mike Wilson explained that being DRM-free was a massive part of the reasoning behind the partnership.

"In this new digital economy, many of the artists that Devolver works with believe that if they are lucky enough to have someone pay for their work, the last thing that artist (or publisher) should do is impose ownership restrictions on those who paid."

GOG.com also recently announced that they would be abandoning their plan to adopt regional pricing after receiving feedback from their customers, instead adopting a flat-rate worldwide pricing policy.

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